No guts, no glory as they say. But as a 3D printing maestro (not my words!), I can make any instrument sing. Plus the "slicer trickery" is more a function of hot end and extruder and I have lots of Bondtech BMG / E3D V6 water cooled experience. Cake walk! You can see that I hadn't even san...

It was one year ago today that our friend Eaglezsoar passed away. Please join me in a moment of remembering Carl and all he did for this community. I miss his joke emails and frequent "welcome" posts here.

It was one year ago today that our friend Eaglezsoar passed away. Please join me in a moment of remembering Carl and all he did for this community. I miss his joke emails and frequent "welcome" posts here.

I started building mine back in Sept-Oct along with one of my local supporters (we each built a RailCore). This was early days so part of the job was to sanity check the documentation, BOM, etc. This was my first CoreXY machine and I was VERY interested to see how it performed since I've seen and he...

KISSlicer 1.6.2 was just release on all platforms. See the change log for details, minor fixes but one new big thing is an Object Packing Quality option on the Misc panel. Leave it at Fast but if you need better packing change it. However, note that it will take a bit of time depending on how many o...

What was the result of tuning our extruder's esteps? Your photos and description and KISS settings tell me that your extruder calibration is off. Also, please watch my KISSlicer 1.6 YouTube tutorial videos . I've already completed a video on perimeters/loops which will also help you quite a bit. I a...

1) You can change the calibration points and David has a calculator on his web site that generates the g-code for you. Sounds like you are probing at too large a radius. 2) Yes they are, I didn't intend to use the blue clamps as I find them too flexible. I use a small strip of aluminum. A simple pri...

Honestly, it is not worth the time and aggravation trying to get this to work. It is almost certain that the issue is the adapter is not seeing the trigger event due to the wide variability in probing conditions. This is why I abandoned this approach.

This is one of the main reasons I stopped supporting this. It is too dependent on surface hardness for my requirements and several other factors affect sensitivity that don't cause a problem with FSRs.

I've run 20+ spools of CF (not fiberglass) PETG and PLA with no issues on the Bondtech QR extruder. It's - push on both sides of the filament - design is much better for flexibles and abrasive filaments like these.

I still don't know how to reconcile claims that "brand X PEI" doesn't work as well. I have PEI from every vendor I know about on 20+ different printers and I've never had one that doesn't work well AFTER a good cleaning and light sanding.

Here's an example of the type of geometry that can be problematic for mag ball arms printed in PLA: Screen Shot 2017-05-24 at 11.48.28 AM.png To mitigate, improve cooling significantly, use .1mm layers, slow down significantly, add support to the hole/opening, etc. It can be printed with mag ball ar...

Very interesting indeed. A new friend I visited recently in Calgary had a beautiful spool of amber PLA sitting on his shelf. I commented and he said "it sticks, it's yours if you want it" I jumped on it, I have a thing for translucent amber it seems. I brought it home and it prints beautif...

See Delta Arm Joint Musings for the whole story. I respectfully submit that magnetic ball arms - like all mechanical joint solutions - are a tradeoff. I have 1000s of hours of experience with them and all the others in my post above so, much like that insurance commercial, "I know a thing or tw...